The Watchdogs

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Honest mistakes by young scientists shouldn’t doom their careers

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Sharing is a cardinal virtue, but scientists still struggle with it

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Reader beware: Science covered in the news is pretty likely to be overturned

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

In search for the fountain of youth, a lesson in doing good science

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Scientists, fishing for significance, get a meager catch

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

On tap at this Harvard reunion: Head-butting over problematic sugar study

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Scientists protest immigration ban with boycotts of journals, conferences

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

A famed journal blacklist is dead. Long live a blacklist!

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Project to replicate landmark cancer studies meets mixed results

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Gaming the system, scientific ‘cartels’ band together to cite each others’ work

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Research data, missing for decades, raise concerns on morning sickness drug

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Fake news invades science and science journalism as well as politics

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

This young scientist retracted a paper. And it didn’t hurt his career

The Watchdogs Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky

‘Dear plagiarist’: A scientist calls out his double-crosser

The Watchdogs Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky

Why a First Amendment win is good for science

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

The real plague affecting science? It isn’t fraud

The Watchdogs Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky

For young scientists, a supervisor’s fraud can derail a career

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Is the peer review system sustainable?

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

There’s a way to spot data fakery. All journals should be using it

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Too much public shaming is bad, but that’s not the real problem in science

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Matter of degree: Politicians seem to have a problem with dishonest credentials

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Keep politics out of science? Fugghedaboutit

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Keep negativity out of politics. We need more of it in journals

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Do we need the Nobels?

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

How researchers lock up their study data with sharing fees

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Meet the world’s top peer reviewer

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Science’s arbiter of disputes, the meta-analysis, is falling prey to bias

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Why an obscure Indian journal has an impressive — and growing — international stature

The Watchdogs Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Are ‘predatory’ publishers’ days numbered?